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Haslington man shot in head

Mar 26, 2010 News

– had survived X-mas Eve night shooting

Doctors at the Georgetown Public  Hospital Corporation were up to late last night battling to save the life of a 29-year-old man from Haslington North, East Coast Demerara, who was shot in the back of the head in what is initially being described as an execution attempt.
Kaieteur News understands that Quacy John was sitting in his house at about 21:00 hours when a lone gunman walked in and shot him.
No one could say what led to the shooting and even family members declined to comment when approached by this newspaper, while they waited anxiously at the hospital.
A relative of the wounded man told police that she was at home when someone came and told her that her nephew was shot. She said that she immediately rushed over to John’s house and found him bleeding from the wound at the back of his head.
John was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital where he was immediately admitted.
The woman told Kaieteur News that John arrived at the hospital in a conscious condition.
However there are reports that the bullet is lodged at the back of his head.
This is the second time that John has been shot.
Police sources said that on Christmas Eve night last, John was hospitalized with pellet wounds about the body from a shotgun blast.
But relatives did not immediately report the matter to the police.
According to family members John still has a few pellets in his body from that incident.
Police described John as a small time marijuana dealer.
They are investigating the matter but so far no one has been arrested.

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